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Thousands of stranded passengers just before Christmas and hundreds of holidays ruined has not apparently affected the standing of the Eurostar boss who oversaw the chaos. An estimated 100,000 people were caught out by the closures brought about by heating defects and cold weather.
Eurostar is expected to announce this week the appointment of CEO Nicolas Petrovic to the post of head of the company’s rail operations on January first where he will replace incumbent Richard Brown. Petrovic will not only have a new title but a six-figure increase in his salary with his new role paying around £400,000 per annum.
However, [...]

Global car hire firm Dollar Rent a Car has launched a new UK wsbsite will feature a blog in order to provide information and guideo those who are seeking Car hire.
The new feature on the website will include contributions from all around the world on many subjects, including car hire advice.  The company’s aim is to give customers information related to car hire travel and destination advice, as well as an in-depth look at driving throughout the US.  It also covers topics for those who may be driving across Europe, highlighting the many different road rules across the different countries, [...]

In a bid to help customer’s beat the winter blues Europcar has announced its New Year half-price sale. The half price deals will be available at many Europcar locations across the U.K. including airports and will cover a range of vehicles. The sale is aimed at giving customers who are counting the pennies after the [...]

Leading car hire company Sixt Rent A Car has announced that it will be offering Londoners the opportunity to get their hands on a rental vehicle for just £29.00 per day throughout the month of January. Sixt is offering low prices on a number of popular vehicles including Ford transit vans and cars from the ever popular Volkswagen Golf series.  The January deals are perfect for customers who want to get away after Christmas.
Sixt has made it extremely easy to book a car hire and customers can reserve their chosen vehicle on the internet through the Sixt website as well [...]

UK car hire firm giant Sixt is curing the winter blues by launching a range of new offers for those seeking van and car hire in the month of January.
Following the festive season, the car hire firm is offering a range of special offers on van and car hire across London, with many customers already taking advantage of the offer.
One of the company’s most popular models is the Volkswagen Golf, a swift car to zip around town in, which can be rented for £29 a day, including SatNav.
The company is also providing those seeking van hire a £29 per day [...]

Two people were killed in England’s southwest on Wednesday as a bus overturned on treacherously icy roads. 47 people were injured in the tragedy as all across the UK travel was affected by the miserable weather.
The accident with the bus occurred after it rolled on its way back from a viewing visit of Christmas lights. The bus slid off the road before colliding with a tree and turning to its side as it ended through a hedgerow according to police reports.
Elsewhere across Britain, chaos ensued at many major travel hubs with cancellations and delays enforced far and wide. In Scotland [...]

Lately there has been a big scramble by Eurostar passengers to find a way to get on the limited scheduled trains before Christmas. However, Eurostar has come forward and issued a statement saying that it will be running services throughout the day.
The train operator went on to note that it will continue running services the day before Christmas and is still confident that everyone that wishes to travel before Christmas will get the chance to do so. A Eurostar spokeswoman had earlier urged passengers to wait to come down to the station, because they did not want people waiting out [...]

Recently there seems to be no hope for the UK travel industry. With reports of strikes, businesses closing and bad weather, it would appear that no one is going to make it to their holiday destination. However, the bad news is not over yet. Apparently bad weather continues to be a problem for many people trying to make it to their destinations before Christmas.
Right now temperatures in the UK are lower than that of Alaska, and it continues to plunge the UK into travel chaos. However, airports are not the only places that are seeing delays. Apparently travel has [...]

New reports now show that dozens of passengers were injured after an American Airlines jet overshot the runaway in Jamaica when trying to land in heavy rain. The fuselage of the Boeing 737-800 broke into two pieces on impact. Despite this bad news, no reports suggested any fatalities.
A spokesman for American Airlines, Tim Wagner, said that the Boeing 737-800, which is one of the airline’s newest models, was carrying 148 passengers at the time of the crash. There were six crew members on board as well.
The American Airlines flight was coming from Washington D.C. and had stopped in Miami en [...]

As temperatures begin to creep above freezing across the U.K. and the rest of Europe transport services try to get back to normal. Eurostar say that at last it is beginning to clear its backlog of passengers and that it is doing its best to find seats for those who have tickets. It says that [...]

The multi award winning carrentals.co.uk comparison source has declared that trends seen this year across Europe are likely to continue in 2010, as reduced fleet sizes continue in times of economic downturn. Although the recession shows slow signs of a recovery, the plans implemented by the continent’s leading rental operators will not be reversed any time soon.
The summer peak period is forecasted once again to mirror the chaotic scenes witnessed in areas such as Spain, where popular holiday destinations such as Alicante, Malaga and Valencia all selling out of their fleets well in advance. Worse news is that the highly [...]

Speaking at the climate summit in Copenhagen, London Mayor Boris Johnson made the assertion that by the year 2015 not a single Londoner would be further than one mile away from an electric car charge point.
Mayor Johnson went on to reveal details of a citywide network of charge points for electric vehicles as London strives to be a world-leader in zero carbon-emission vehicles of the electric kind. Johnson had been using the summit to showcase London’s electric vehicle plans and his desire to make such vehicles a notable feature of the city. London is at the forefront of a global [...]